SAP ABAP/ S4 HANA Developer (Senior)

Essential Skills Requirements:

• Experience in the following modules
  • SAP ABAP
  • SAP S/4 HANA
• Problem-Solving capabilities
• Ability to work as part of a team with the Agile Working Methodology
• Ability to work independently as well interdependently and to submit deliverables on time and with excellent quality.
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills with the ability to communicate effectively (both verbally and in writing) with both technical and non-technical colleagues/users.
• Strong ability to understand and interpret business needs and requirements with an aptitude to move concepts through to proposal and successful implementation.
• Willingness to engage foreign customers and be sensitive to possible language barriers & cultural differences.
• Above-board work ethics
• Willingness and ability to work on weekends and public holidays on implementation and operations (IT Support) related tasks.
• Flexibility to take up different tasks in the project.
• Ability and willingness to coach and give training to fellow colleagues and users when required

Advantageous Skills Requirements:

• Level 1 process integration knowledge across multiple SAP Modules.
• Level 1 technical (incl. infrastructure) integration knowledge across multiple technologies.

Qualifications and experience:

• 5-8 years of DevOps (Operations, configuration/development) experience in commercial/and/or retail end user IT applications
• Relevant Programming Language or SAP certification
• Experience in Logistics

Responsibilities:

• Understand the business requirements, preparing AS-IS, and TO-BE documents and get sign-off from users for functional and/or technical design document(s).
• Proactively propose solutions to improve the support of (new) business processes.
• Providing business case input in terms of benefits and risks.
• Preparing test data for testing of user stories
• Execute and/or support testing activities, for example: unit testing, system integration tests, regression testing, user acceptance testing, security testing.
• Analyse and scope end-user authorisation roles.
• Preparing User Manuals and conducting training to business process owners
• Preparing cut-over strategy, e.g., data migration
• Go-Live preparation and post Go-Live Support
• Change Management – Manage changes and present to relevant CAB
• Interaction with clients through meetings, calls and emails.
• Receiving, troubleshooting, resolving, and closing operational and maintenance tickets within SLA’s.
• Development debugging
• Interact with consultants of other modules.
• Update and maintain documentation as an existing system’s functionality is changed.
• Taking a proactive approach in the software development/design process
• Execution according to the Agile Methodology and attending of all team meetings, including Stand ups, Sprint Review, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Planning meetings etc.
• Daily use of the Agile Tool Chain, as per the updates required by the respective feature team(s).